Georgia GOP attempting to scuttle election interference investigation

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Cuddles, Feb 20, 2021.

  1. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Party of law and order they said...



    https://lawandcrime.com/2020-electi...secution-of-donald-trump-for-election-crimes/

    Georgia Republicans Are Trying to Change the Rules for Fani Willis’s Prosecution of Donald Trump for Election Crimes

    It’s been less than a week since Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis publicly began an investigation into Donald Trump‘s phone call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and Georgia Republicans are already trying in earnest to change the rules that apply to prosecutions of election crimes.

    Georgia state Republicans introduced a resolution Thursday that seeks to change the Georgia State Constitution to mandate the use of state-wide grand juries in prosecutions involving election crimes. The move would force prosecutors to draw more grand jurors from predominantly Republican rural areas of the state.

    Per the bill’s text:

    (d) The Attorney General or his or her designee shall act as legal adviser to any state-wide grand jury. The Attorney General, in his or her discretion, may designate any member of his or her staff or any district attorney to provide legal advice, counsel, or assistance to a state-wide grand jury.

    (e) The subject matter jurisdiction of state-wide grand juries shall extend to the investigation and indictment of persons or legal entities for any crime involving voting, elections, or a violation of the election laws of this state and all related crimes.

    The change, if adopted, could create a significant hurdle for any case brought by Willis, who would normally bring the results of a criminal investigation before a Fulton County grand jury. As Georgia State University College of Law Professor Anthony Michael Kreis commented on Twitter, using state-wide grand juries instead of county-wide ones would likely dilute the representation of Black residents on the panel.

    Fulton County is the largest county in Georgia, with a population of 1,036,200; it also has the largest number of Black residents (approximately 440,568, which accounts of 43.6 percent of the county’s total population). By contrast, Georgia as a whole has a Black population of 32.6%.

    Georgia’s Grand Jury Handbook appears to place more significance on representatively-proportional demographics than do members of its legislature. The Handbook explains to prospective grand jurors as follows:

    All jurors are selected from a list of the qualified residents of the county. This list is developed by the Board of Jury Commissioners so that it reflects a fair cross-section of the citizens of the county. The primary sources for this list are drivers’ license records and voter registrations, but the Commissioners may use any other source to insure that the jury list fairly represents the population of the county.

    In an email to Law&Crime, Professor Kreis called the proposal “a warning shot across the bow.”

    “This measure is unlikely to secure the supermajority requirement for state constitutional amendments and would still require voter ratification even if it garnered the requisite number of votes in the General Assembly,” he said.

    As a result, Kreis expects Willis to be undeterred by the move.

    “Ultimately, I don’t think this particular proposal will weigh into her calculus over when and how to proceed,” Kreis predicted.

    Twenty-five Georgia Senate Republicans co-sponsored the proposal for the Amendment. Georgia’s 56-member Senate currently has a Republican majority of 34 to 22. Amending the state’s constitution would require a two-thirds vote of the Senate, which would necessitate the vote of at least four Democrats before heading for ratification from voters.

    Neither Fani Willis’s office nor the offices of the proposed amendment’s top sponsors immediately responded to request for comment.
     
  2. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    Thankfully it looks like it won't succeed but thier attempt is noted.
     
  3. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    GOP losing GA but they aren't going out without a fight.
     
  4. Atlantic

    Atlantic

    they will lose so many more states in the coming years.

    one day - not so far away - they will be the "meaningless old party" - MOP.
     
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  5. smallfil

    smallfil

    Extreme liberals who cheated in the November 3, 2020 elections in various states are now being prosecuted with a number of them already charged. These expendable riff raff are not going to be saved by their Democrat official handlers. They are just garbage to be disposed off. Good riddance fools. Enjoy being locked up for years.
     
  6. Atlantic

    Atlantic

    there is absolutely no doubt that this election was rigged against Joe Biden and the democrats.

    it is impossible that 74 million people could ever be stupid enough to vote for an assclown like d. trump.
     
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  7. Cuddles

    Cuddles

     
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    Cuddles

     
  9. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    The walls are closing in!
     
  10. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/14/poli...-georgia-investigator-trash-folder/index.html
    Officials located December recording of Trump call in a trash folder on Georgia investigator's device

    (CNN)Officials in the Georgia Secretary of State's Office located a recently released recording of former President Donald Trump's call to a state investigator in a trash folder on her device, a state official familiar with the situation confirmed to CNN.

    The audio file of the December 23 call between the former President and investigator Frances Watson was discovered as the Georgia Secretary of State's Office responded to a public records request. The personal familiar spoke with CNN on the condition of anonymity to describe the internal process.
    The Washington Post first reported the details of how the audio of the December phone call emerged.
     
    #10     Mar 14, 2021